[Contents.]
[Index]: [A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [J], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [Z] [List of Illustrations]
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From the painting by Cabanel.

NAPOLEON III.

France from Behind
the Veil: Fifty Years
of Social and Political Life

BY
Count Paul Vassili
Illustrated

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
New York and London
1914

PUBLISHERS’ NOTE

While this volume has been passing through the press certain of the personages still living at the time Count Vassili was at work on the manuscript of “France from Behind the Veil” have passed away.

Also, incidents have occurred which are a reflex of matters mentioned in these pages.

In such instances the publishers have thought well to bring the manuscript right up to date, leaving the reader to understand that events happening in 1914, and therefore subsequent to the Count’s death, have been so treated.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
[1.][Last Days of the Empire: Napoleon and Eugénie][1]
[2.][The Surroundings and Friends of the Sovereigns][13]
[3.][Fontainebleau and Compiègne][25]
[4.][Political Men of the Time][38]
[5.][Before the Storm][52]
[6.][The Disaster][63]
[7.][Letters from Paris during the Siege][73]
[8.][The Commune][87]
[9.][M. Thiers][99]
[10.][The Comte de Chambord and his Party][112]
[11.][The Orleans Princes][123]
[12.][The Duc d’Aumale and Chantilly][133]
[13.][The Presidency of Marshal MacMahon][144]
[14.][Two Great Ministers][156]
[15.][Paris Society under the Presidency of Marshal MacMahon][166]
[16.][A Few Prominent Parisian Hostesses][177]
[17.][Madame Juliette Adam][190]
[18.][A Few Literary Men][205]
[19.] [The 16th of May and the Fall of Marshal MacMahon][218]
[20.][Leon Gambetta][231]
[21.][The Adventure of General Boulanger][244]
[22.][The Panama Scandal][257]
[23.][Two Presidents][271]
[24.][Imperial and Presidential Visits][285]
[25.][The French Press][297]
[26.][The Presidency of M. Loubet][308]
[27.][The Dreyfus Affair][318]
[28.][Parisian Salons under the Third Republic][332]
[29.][The Present Tone of Paris Society][343]
[30.][M. Fallières as President][358]
[31.][M. Briand and the Socialists][366]
[32.][A Few Literary Men of the Present Day][372]
[33.][A Few Foreign Diplomats][382]
[L’Envoi][389]
[Index]: [A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [J], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [Z] [391]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[Napoleon III.][Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
[Empress Eugénie][10]
[M. Adolphe Thiers][118]
[Marshal MacMahon][118]
[Comte de Chambord][118]
[Leon Gambetta][118]
[Madame Juliette Adam][212]
[Alex. Dumas (Père)][212]
[Anatole France][212]
[Octave Mirbeau][212]
[Captain Dreyfus][246]
[General Boulanger][246]
[Emile Zola][246]
[M. de Lesseps][246]
[M. M. F. Sadi-Garnot][310]
[M. J. P. P. Casimer Périer][310]
[M. F. F. Faure][310]
[M. E. Loubet][310]
[M. A. Fallières][360]
[M. R. Poincaré][360]
[M. A. Briand][360]
[M. G. Clemenceau][360]
[The Chamber of Deputies Sitting][370]